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  2. Wingsuit flying - Wikipedia

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    Wingsuit BASE: (1) Exit (2) Flight (3) Deployment (4) Landing. As suit technology and pilot skill have improved, wingsuit BASE jumpers have learned to control their flight so that they can fly within several meters of terrain. “Proximity flying” is the practice of flying a wingsuit close to the faces and ridges of mountains.

  3. Shin Ito - Wikipedia

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    Shin Ito (伊藤 慎一, Itō Shin'ichi) (born December 1964 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese wingsuit pilot and skydiver who in 2012 held the world records for "Greatest horizontal distance flown in a wingsuit" 26.9 km (16.71 miles), [1] "Greatest absolute distance flown in a wingsuit" 28.707 km (17.83 miles) above California, USA on 26 May 2012, [2] and "Fastest speed reached in a wingsuit of ...

  4. List of birds by flight speed - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the fastest flying birds in the world. A bird's velocity is necessarily variable; a hunting bird will reach much greater speeds while diving to catch prey than when flying horizontally. The bird that can achieve the greatest airspeed is the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), able to exceed 320 km/h (200 mph) in its dives.

  5. World’s First Electric Wingsuit Diver Hits 186 MPH Top Speed

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    The post World’s First Electric Wingsuit Diver Hits 186 MPH Top Speed appeared first on Nerdist. Somebody has performed the first-ever wingsuit dive with an electric wingsuit, achieving a top ...

  6. Meet the skydiver who flew in a wingsuit past the castle ...

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    A subject of Walt Disney’s imagination for the Sleeping Beauty castle, Germany’s Neuschwanstein Castle is a go-to tourist destination for around 1.4 million people per year.

  7. Parachuting - Wikipedia

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    'Wingsuit flying' or 'wingsuiting' is the sport of flying through the air using a wingsuit, which adds surface area to the human body to enable a significant increase in lift. The common type of wingsuit creates an extra surface area with fabric between the legs and under the arms.

  8. Vincent Reffet - Wikipedia

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    Vincent Reffet was a professional parachutist. He completed 17,000 parachute jumps and 1,400 BASE jumps.He began wingsuit flying in 2002. He was a parachute instructor, "Jetman" pilot, licensed private pilot, wind tunnel instructor (totaling 1000 hours), and pioneer and instructor in speed riding. [1]

  9. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Wingsuit flying

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    Original – Wingsuit flight from Aiguille du Midi to Chamonix, France (elevations 12600 and 3400 ft respectively), includes proximity flying and a 360 degree roll. Reason A complete flight from takeoff to landing with natural audio and some informative captions. Good addition to the article and shows the subject well.